27.11.07

to name is to love: to open your being to other beings—an act of heart and mind as one whole person.to adject is to judge: to oppose your consciousness to other beings—an act of mind as sovereign modifier; a denial of nature for the sake of an arbitrary moral ego.to word (verb) is to communicate politically: to relate your presence to the other beings—an act either of personal freedom (in the case of naming), or of dominion (in the case of morals). where, freedom means the logical unity of nature in the person, and, dominion means the contemplative rupture of nature in the autonomous consciousness.

bourgeois law legislates just one thing, its upkeep—the authentic violence: the meaning in the meaning.anomy constrains for just one thing, the loneliness as the only order—the arbitrary violence: the absence of meaning as meaning.…so, beauty is always sad

--------(*) “the only philosophy which can be responsibly practiced in face of despair is the attempt to contemplate all things as they would present themselves from the standpoint of redemption” (Th. Adorno, Minima Moralia)